Comments on: Backing The Wrong Horse http://brutalgamer.com/2012/09/09/backing-the-wrong-horse/ Brutally Honest! Fri, 17 May 2013 04:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: DarthDiggler http://brutalgamer.com/2012/09/09/backing-the-wrong-horse/comment-page-1/#comment-3909 DarthDiggler Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:34:57 +0000 http://brutalgamer.com/?p=52723#comment-3909 How can you be a PlayStation fan and a video game writer and not properly format the name PlayStation. It's not Playstation it's PlayStation. Peeps just look dumb as shit writing for a website and calling it Playstation. How can you be a PlayStation fan and a video game writer and not properly format the name PlayStation.

It’s not Playstation it’s PlayStation.

Peeps just look dumb as shit writing for a website and calling it Playstation.

]]> By: yamagata47 http://brutalgamer.com/2012/09/09/backing-the-wrong-horse/comment-page-1/#comment-3905 yamagata47 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:59:17 +0000 http://brutalgamer.com/?p=52723#comment-3905 I bought both within a year of each other so I've had the benefit of playing the best of each platform, but even among those who buy more than one platform, or even all in a given generation, there will typically be a platform of choice. Over the course of about 5 years, the Xbox definitely fell by the wayside when I dropped the Gold subscription, making any multiplatform releases with online play an easy choice for the PS3. The only times I found myself using Gold for basic online play was when the latest Gears of Halo game was released, making it a sporadically used console, more so after the split in HD formats on disc (HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray) was settled and HD-DVD became the new Betamax as all studios turned to BD. By late 2009, any Xbox games that were on Windows, were being played on PC with better hardware, minus the conveniences inherent in a console, making the Xbox somewhat of a regrettable purchase barring the rare exclusive title typically beginning with "Gears" or "Halo." By dropping the Gold subscription, it no longer mattered which friends were on XBL and it became PSN or Steam or nothing and again, the Xbox became the unwanted stepchild. On the other hand, the PS3 really left the starting gates backwards and stumbling while insisting that initial $600 admission price was worth it because it was a Playstation by Sony. As a result, they spent the entire hardware generation attempting to win over new customers and continually fix all the initial shortcomings with the free online play, more A level exclusives than the general public cared to buy and when they finally devised a paid subscription service, a laundry list of perks from discounts to free games to make it worthwhile. Ultimately, with the emphasis on online play this generation, platform choice more or less boiled down to where your friends were playing which also dictated what you were playing. Fewer choices perhaps on the Xbox in terms of exclusives, but also irrelevant if your gaming buddies were on XBL rather than PSN. I bought both within a year of each other so I’ve had the benefit of playing the best of each platform, but even among those who buy more than one platform, or even all in a given generation, there will typically be a platform of choice.

Over the course of about 5 years, the Xbox definitely fell by the wayside when I dropped the Gold subscription, making any multiplatform releases with online play an easy choice for the PS3. The only times I found myself using Gold for basic online play was when the latest Gears of Halo game was released, making it a sporadically used console, more so after the split in HD formats on disc (HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray) was settled and HD-DVD became the new Betamax as all studios turned to BD.

By late 2009, any Xbox games that were on Windows, were being played on PC with better hardware, minus the conveniences inherent in a console, making the Xbox somewhat of a regrettable purchase barring the rare exclusive title typically beginning with “Gears” or “Halo.”

By dropping the Gold subscription, it no longer mattered which friends were on XBL and it became PSN or Steam or nothing and again, the Xbox became the unwanted stepchild.

On the other hand, the PS3 really left the starting gates backwards and stumbling while insisting that initial $600 admission price was worth it because it was a Playstation by Sony. As a result, they spent the entire hardware generation attempting to win over new customers and continually fix all the initial shortcomings with the free online play, more A level exclusives than the general public cared to buy and when they finally devised a paid subscription service, a laundry list of perks from discounts to free games to make it worthwhile.

Ultimately, with the emphasis on online play this generation, platform choice more or less boiled down to where your friends were playing which also dictated what you were playing. Fewer choices perhaps on the Xbox in terms of exclusives, but also irrelevant if your gaming buddies were on XBL rather than PSN.

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